I’ve just finished reading The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer. It was well written and reasonably enjoyable but didn’t really compare to the book that inspired me to buy it, The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Both are essentially about how complicated love can be when one of the people involved has some genetic abnormality and so doesn’t experience time in the same way as the other. They are also much better than that lame summary suggests.
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